Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de la mer Adriatique

Essai sur L historie Naturelle de la mer Adriatique, ed. Pierre de

Donati Vitaliano: Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de la mer Adriatique

Name: Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de la mer Adriatique
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Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de la mer Adriatique

Donati Vitaliano

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Vitaliano Donati: Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de la mer Adriatique

The subject book is the first and very valuable marine botanical study of the Adriatic Sea.

Donati, Vitaliano, physician, archaeologist and botanist (Padua, 8.IX.1717 - Indian Ocean, 26.II.1762).

He received his doctorate in philosophy in 1739 in his hometown. He was mostly interested in natural sciences and archaeology. Pope Benedict XIV. entrusted him with the task of collecting findings that would fill the windows of the newly founded Museum of Natural Sciences within the Roman University of La Sapienza. For many years he held the chair of botany and natural sciences at the University of Turin and successfully managed the botanical garden. He was engaged in mineralogy and geology, studied the climate. He visited the duchies of Savoy and Aosta with the intention of investigating the possible exploitation of mines, and in his travel report he recorded a wealth of ethnological data that provide a comprehensive picture of the mountain tribes in the Alps in the 18th century. st.

He researched the wider Adriatic region and the coast for a long time, which resulted in the publication of the work Della storia naturale marina dell'Adriatico (1750), which was translated into several languages. In the book, co-authored by the Venetian doctor and botanist Leonardo Sesler, he described the Adriatic marine flora and fauna. He studied marbles and fossils in Istria. On several occasions he mentioned Rovinj. He described and drew in detail the flora and fauna he observed near Vrsar and Rovinj. Near the latter city, he saw petrified human bones mixed with marble, red earth and stalactites, which in his time attracted a large number of curious researchers and experts in Istria and elsewhere.

He set out on a journey to India through Egypt and the Middle East with the task of collecting the largest possible number of finds (mummies, manuscripts, ancient objects) for the future Egyptian Museum in Turin. He died on a Turkish ship in the middle of the Indian Ocean, and was buried in Mangalore.

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